Sentence examples for mere member from inspiring English sources

You feel a bit deflated when he is elected as a mere Member of Parliament, in 1900, without any sign of swordplay.

The United States did not claim the power to kill Mr. Awlaki because of his political views or because he was a mere member of a Qaeda affiliate against which Congress had authorized the use of force.

The span is suddenly shifting from being a mere member of the 61,000-plus club of "structurally deficient" bridges nationwide to being an emblem of what happens when Washington dithers.

It would have been social suicide in the echelons of Manhattan's high society for any mere member to risk criticism of their patroness – and only a handful ever did.

This makes the ECB a mere member of the "institutions" (inverted commas in Blockupy's original), and so an integral part of the problem, whatever its differences with German leaders.At a previously scheduled press conference in Berlin, Wolfgang Schäuble, the conservative finance minister, and Sigmar Gabriel, the centre-left economy minister, made the point themselves.

While the conclusions are simple, the execution is more complicated as Germany is a mere member of the eurozone.

Countering Carl Schmitt's influential notion of the autonomy of the political, Bates demonstrates that Enlightenment thinkers understood the autonomous political sphere as a space of law protecting individuals according to their political status, not as mere members of a historically contingent social order.

These softer radicals, many of them mere members of a terrorist organization, but not actually involved in plotting a direct attack, could become more hardened behind bars, and a bigger threat upon their release.

Notably, Congress's succession statute for the Justice Department lists those people as next in line, not a handpicked mere staff member from the bowels of the department.

As a mere "Red" member of the new Emirates scheme I'm unlikely to have access to many league tickets this season, despite coughing up my £50.

Shanahan then saw the other Bausch shows, Bluebeard and 1980, and quickly had the sense she knew, intimately, the Wuppertal performers – though she was a mere audience member.